Otaku Protest Against RWBY Being Included on Crunchyroll

SAN FRANCISCO, CA– A large sweaty crowd of men have camped outside Crunchyroll headquarters with a simple demand: pull the critically acclaimed RWBY from the website. The group claims that the series should not be considered an anime, and therefore shouldn’t be hosted on an anime streaming site. For two days protesters have kept a vigilant watch over Crunchyroll’s offices, effectively holding its employees hostage inside.

“We won’t let them leave until our demands are met!” The protest’s ringleader, Andrew Hampfield, told the press, “If we start calling this travesty an anime, then we might as well give up on our culture as a whole!”

“They’ve let us order chinese food,” A Crunchyroll employee tweeted, “But they always steal the dumplings before the rest is brought up to us. We’re still getting paid overtime though, so at least there’s that.”

This protest has begun to affect other stream services. Netflix has already moved RWBY into their documentary section, hoping that it will remain hidden from the eyes of otaku. Other sites have taken a different approach and renamed the series Spice and Wolf III to disguise it as a legitimate anime.

But there are some that aren’t afraid to stand up against this hivemind of neckbeards. “It’s as much an anime as Touhou Project, Avatar, Kappa Mikey, Doctor Who, or anything that people sell or cosplay as at anime conventions. Anything can be an anime if you warp the definition enough,” an anonymous RWBY cosplayer told Anime Maru.

Others have brought up the RWBY manga, citing it as definitive proof of the series being an ‘anime’. If we include western properties that have been adapted into manga as ‘anime’, then Spider-Man is one of the most successful anime franchises.

Purists like Hampfield still have not been dissuaded, “The rules for what is and isn’t anime were set long ago, they don’t change. As long as Crunchyroll keeps supplying us with free dumplings, we’ll be staying right where we are.”

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61 thoughts on “Otaku Protest Against RWBY Being Included on Crunchyroll”

Leave it on the show is fing amazing and this is the only place i can get it on, please don’t remove it crunchyroll. Also, whoever thinks that 14-year-olds welding a transformable scythe/sniper rifle and a drunkle wielding a tansformable buster sword/double barrelled shotgun/buster scythe is not cool, be it that the characters are male or female must have a screw loose?

I cannot think of a more retarded thing to be upset about. The debate between what’s anime and what isn’t is all very interesting, but not worth protests and boycotts. I love watching RWBY, as I do other animes, and Crunchyroll is the only place I can do it legally and for free, so for that I greatly appreciate them and would rather they not remove it. Also, as others have pointed out, RWBY is inspired and influenced by various anime elements, so it’s not entirely out of place. Finally, Crunchyroll also has shows that wouldn’t technically count as anime because they aren’t even animated. Crunchyroll is free to stream whatever shows it wants and not everything revolves around the desires of whiny, immature weeaboos. If you’re upset about something, go do something to fix world hunger, or something worthwhile like that.

The hell? It’s animation, even if it’s produced by America! Netflix moving it to documentary? It’s not a documentary. It’s really no different than CGI that’s produced in Japan! These guys are just wasting their time and energy on something that’s pointless.

Keeping people hostage in the building until they take it off? Isnt’ that like, grounds for arrest?

I like how people kick a dead mans last dream and try to destroy it… Monty was a great person not because he worked for roosterteeth and not because of his Asian nationality… He was a saint to animators because he told them to keep pushing for their dreams as he did he wanted to create RWBY so it could live along side anime titles like DBZ and Naruto and u have ppl like this who want and wish to cripple the work that he wanted all because of what? It’s western animation??? So ppl are gonna sit here and tell me that RWBY can’t possibly be an anime because it was made by a man in a western society??? That’s doesn’t make any sense… Pls if u think like this reconsider… Would U want to hurt the ppl who have pasted on or would u treasure it in any way… I know the way I do but we will have to see…

Not to put you down, but (and remember: i am a big RWBY fan and loved monty) but they don´t give a damn if MOnty is alive or dead. Many of them probably don´t even know if he is or not. They just want RWBY off
If this is even real…

The definition of anime was set long ago? The original, Japanese definition is “any animated work.” The west mangled it to “any animated work from Japan.” And Warner Bros. Japan considers it an anime. If these people stand outside in protest for days over such a stupid argument, they really need to get a life or get fired from whatever job they might have, because clearly they cannot uphold their position at their workplace due to skewed priorities.

1. Otakus like RWBY. Weeaboos don’t
2. Otakus know what is anime and what is not. Weeaboos are extremists
3. Otakus can openly joke about anime. Weeaboos will remain butthurt.
4. Otakus respect Japanese culture and remain in touch with their own. Weeaboos only know %.01 of the culture and claims it to be everything.

Otakus HATE Weeaboos as much as anyone else, even as much as FilthyFrank.
FilthyFrank people!!!

Not even Otakus themselves want to be associated with Weeaboos, because even I said specifically “Oh, crap! RWBY is from America?” Trust me, I looked at the thumbnails in Crunchyroll before finding out in was American, and I was surprised, and proud of ‘Murica. So please Weeaboos, kill yourselves and disappear. We ALL hate you.

An otaku is literally someone who is so obsessed with something that it affects their day-to-day life. It’s the real Japanese meaning that people have changed to suit themselves. They’re barely any different from weaboo’s, if there’s even a difference.

Fake. There’s no way those nerds could follow through with this kind of protest. They’d fall apart after two hours away from their basements, and their waifu pillows, and their figurines, etc. It just doesn’t add up.

See, this is why we can’t have nice things. Who the hell cares if they are airing a show you don’t like or don’t consider “anime”: just don’t watch it and go back to writing your My Little Pony erotic fan-fiction. It’s dickheads like this that make me feel ashamed to be a man-child.

Why are most of the comments full of stupid people? This is fake, the website is satire, and it’s obvious to boot! If you truly cannot read the sarcasm in the article, please get off the Internet, that’d be greatly appreciated.